自信来自于实力，实力来自于努力 六、任务性阅读（本题共20分，每空1分） 先阅读(A)、(B)、(C)三篇短文，然后根据题目要求及所给语境完成下列五项任务。 (A) unhappy,differences,as,because,quickly,to stay,and,learned about,back,exercising My family moved to America last year from a small town in north China.I had a part-time job 51 a waiter in a Chinese restaurant.One day,when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple,the wife asked me how I could bring their food so 52 I told her I always respected the elderly.I found her 53 when she heard that.My manager heard my words.He took me aside 54 told me that Americans were sensitive (and hated the description of "old".I then walked 55 to the table and politely said sorry to the wife.After they56 the reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural 57,so they laughed. In the USA,people think "growing old"is a problem.Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by 58,like jogging or swimming.When I told the couple I respected the elderly,they got angry 59 this made them feel they failed 60 young,they didn't want to hear that. Now I have changed the way I treated the elderly.I still respect them.but now in a different,less direct way. (B) Today,we can get news from TV or the Internet,but how did ancient people get news At the very beginning,information spread by word of mouth.People living in tribes (got news from neighbors.Sometimes there were some travelers in the tribes,so they could also get news from travelers.Ancient Romans changed the way people knew about their communities.They posted a list of daily happenings at public squares in the cities.Ancient Chinese people did it in another way.The government had news sent to the officers in the whole country so people could know what was going on in the capital. The fifteenth century saw the big progress in printing technology in the west.It brought a sudden rise of news business.Printers sold whatever people loved to read.In the sixteenth century,the first real newspapers appeared.People started to form the habit of reading newspapers.They liked to share their opinions on newspapers.The invention of telegraph ()machines caused another big step in history. New stories were sent to the papers in minutes instead of weeks. Now we get news in seconds from all over the world.We can become some kind of reporters by posting online what happens around us. (C) English is always changing.The English that people used 500 years ago is very different from the English we use now.New words are entering our language all the time.The words-"Internet"" e-mail"and "mobile phone"are only twenty years old.The word website is even younger.We only started using it fifteen years ago. But what causes languages to change There are many reasons that languages change.One reason is that technology changes.We use 第7页共10页
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